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This 4 page paper discussed the similarities between the films “Rear Window” by Alfred Hitchcock and “Blow-Up” directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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are two very fine films that put photographers at the heart of their stories. Why did the directors of these films have a photographer as the protagonist? That is a
very interesting question as well as a revealing one. The photographer is also a voyeur, a fact that is implied in the Hitchcock film and made explicit in Antonionis movie.
Both men tend to look at life through their viewfinders rather than actually participating in it, which distances them from the actual events at the same time that it gives
them unusual clarity. The essentially passive role of observer is made even more stultifying in Rear Window since the photographer, L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) has a broken leg. He is
thus physically immobilized as well as being forced by his profession to remain unmoving as he takes his shots. By making their protagonists photographers (observers, voyeurs), the directors also
force the audience to look at events the same way the photographers do-through their camera lens. That also makes the audience members complicit in the actions, or non-actions, of the
photographers. Thus, when Jeffries uses his binoculars to ogle the sexy girl across the way, we are also looking at her with the same lust. At times, his meddling seems
to be a good thing, as when he and his nurse/masseuse Stella (Thelma Ritter) see a neighbor about to commit suicide and call the police to stop her (Dirks, 2008).
But most of the time, the audience is confronted with the uncomfortable knowledge that Jeffries is a snoop, and that we are snooping right along with him. Numerous critics have
noted that Jeffries apartment windows have the same aspect ratio as the film cameras lens, further inviting our complicity in the crime of being a Peeping Tom. Stella also makes
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